To dissolve, submerge, and cause to disappear the political or governmental system in the economic system by reducing, simplifying, decentralizing and suppressing, one after another, all the wheels of this great machine, which is called the Government or the State. --Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution

Friday, January 13, 2012

New MIcropayment System at C4SS

Center for a Stateless Society (c4SS) has switched to a new method of paying contributors. There's a Flattr button at the top of every column. So if you like what you're reading and you have a Flattr account, you can simply click the button and make a one-time payment of any size you like (even just a dollar) to support the writer.

It's in addition to PayPal -- I think ongoing subscriptions meet something like 40% of our monthly needs. We started doing Flatter because nothing else seems to be working. That little fundraising widget that showed we'd raised 3% of the goal was pretty discouraging, and probably scared away potential contributors.

I do almost all my writing on copyright issues at C4SS. I figured they sprang the MegaUpload shutdown when they did out of sheer petty revenge for the SOPA blackout. It was hilarious that, while they were chortling with glee over an operation that was probably months in the planning, Anon turned on a dime and shut them down in a matter of hours.